Wednesday, December 21, 2011

“The pagans set
aside the 25th of December as the
birthday of the Solar Man. They
rejoiced, feasted, gathered in processions, and made offerings in the temples.
the dark- ness of winter was over and the glorious son of light was returning
to the northern hemi- sphere. With his last effort the old Sun God had torn
down the house of the Philistines (the spirits of Darkness) and had cleared the
way for the new sun who was born that day from the depths of the earth amidst
the symbolic beasts of the lower world.

Concerning this
season of celebration, an anonymous master of arts of BalliolCollege, oxford, in his
scholarly treatise, “Mankind Their Origin and Destiny”, says:

“the Romans also
had their solar festival, and their games of the circus in honour of the birth
of the god of day. it took place the eighth day before the kalends of January –
that is, on December 25. Servius, in his commentary on verse 720 of the seventh
book of the Æneid, in which Virgil speaks of the new sun, says that, properly
speaking, the sun is new on the 8th of the Kalends of January-that is, December
25. In the time of Leo I. (Leo, Serm. xxi., De Nativ. Dom. p. 148), some of the
Fathers of the Church said that ‘what rendered the festival (of Christmas)
venerable was less the birth of Jesus Christ than the return, and, as they
expressed it, the new birth of the sun.’ it was on the same day that the birth
of the invincible Sun (Natalis solis invicti), was celebrated at Rome, as can
be seen in the Roman calendars,
published in the reign of Constantine and of Julian (Hymn to the Sun, p. 155).
This epithet ‘Invictus’ is the same as the Persians gave to this same god, whom they worshipped by the name of Mithra,
and whom they caused to be born in a grotto (Justin. Dial. cum Trips. p. 305),
just as he is represented as being born in a stable, under the name of Christ,
by the Christians.”

The above
passage is taken from the book “The Secret Teachings of All Ages” by Many P
Hall, a great scholar of mysticism. I chose to write on this subject because
today is the winter Solstice and the Sun has reached its southern most point in
its journey and starts its return to the northern hemisphere.

Christmas as a
historic element is contentious and is not relevant to our spiritual unfolding.

It is a
symbolism of the birth of Divine consciousness in Yeshua the son of man and
elevating him to Christ the Son of the Divine Father. This consciousness
incarnation is mapped to an ancient pagan tradition and a cosmic event for
human understanding.

The conquest of
light over darkness through the return of the Sun in the physical universe is
the symbolism of Christ consciousness driving out the darkness of ignorance and
this is the most important element in our understanding of the birth of Christ.

Talking of
Christ, John says in his Gospel; “In him was life, and that life was the light
of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood
it.” ……John 1: 4-5

It is the birth
of illumining wisdom that we need to celebrate. This light of which we speak is
the invincible element of creation through which every creation is given a
purpose and meaning. Christ himself tell his disciples as to who they are. In
saying 50 of the Gospel of Thomas Christ says; “If they say to you, 'Where have
you come from?' say to them, 'We have come from the light, from the place where
the light came into being by itself, established [itself], and appeared in
their image.'

If they say to
you, 'Is it you?' say, 'We are its children, and we are the chosen of the
living Father.'”

We celebrate
Christmas to symbolize the dawning of the light of spiritual wisdom, through
Christ’s teachings and life, in every human being. We are the children of this
light. We are revealed to the world due to the light of Christ consciousness
shining through our own being as children of the light. As John the Baptist
responded to the presence Christ consciousness when in the womb of his mother
but later failed to recognize him until revealed by the Holy Spirit, we also
must invoke the power of the Divine consciousness , which pervades all
creation, to reveal the renewed birthing of Christ consciousness in every
moment of our lives as the very essence of our worldly existence.

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